Police say woman’s death in Port Jervis fire was homicide

PORT JERVIS — City police are saying a woman whose body was found in a burning house on Mountain Avenue Tuesday morning was slain.

Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled it a homicide Friday. Police weren’t releasing any more details Friday as to what happened or how 35-year-old Tyrochelle Haughton died, citing the ongoing homicide investigation.

Dave Stevenson, 38, also lived there and was burned in the fire. Neighbors said he pounded on their door shortly after the fire started, and when they got to the door, he was lying shirtless and facedown in the street, surrounded by a group of people. He is being treated at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and is expected to live.